Release Notes LifeSize Control Release: v4.6 Contents Product Documentation... 1 Upgrade Support... 2 Template Software Version Support... 2 New Features and Resolved Issues... 2 Known Issues... 5 Product Limitations... 7 Interoperability... 8 Interoperability Limitations... 10 Documentation Errata... 11 Technical Services... 11 Product Documentation The following documentation is available in this release. Note: For the most current version of product documentation, refer to the Support page of www.lifesize.com. Document LifeSize Control Deployment Guide Addresses planning, installing, upgrading, configuring, using, and maintaining LifeSize Control and configuring Microsoft Exchange Server for integration with LifeSize Control. LifeSize Control Online Help LifeSize Control Administrator Online Help LifeSize Third Party Licenses **Refer to this document to ensure you meet the necessary system requirements prior to installing LifeSize Control.** A help system defining the functionality and usage of the application, available from the Help button on the navigation bar of the user interface. A help system defining the functionality and usage of the administrator utility. Lists third-party licenses applicable to this release. LifeSize Control Training Video This video demonstrates new features and enhancements in this release of LifeSize Control. 1
Upgrade Support This release of LifeSize Control supports upgrades from versions 3.5 and later. If you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.5, contact LifeSize Technical Services for assistance. Template Software Version Support Supported software versions for the templates feature in this release are v3.0.0, 3.5.0, and 4.0.0, 4.1.1, and 4.5 for LifeSize devices; and v3.0.5 and v4.0.0 for Siemens devices. For more information about templates, refer to the LifeSize Control Deployment Guide. New Features and Resolved Issues Following are the major new features and resolved issues in this release. Numbers in parentheses following a summary are used for internal tracking purposes only. Feature New Features: Support for more devices. (CTL-4028) You can send messages to multiple devices at the same time. (CTL-4036) You can view the Devices page with an expired license. (CTL-3883) Enabling and disabling the local directory. (CTL-4063) Display 1 energy saver preference in the Displays tab of the Device details page. (CTL-3797) Anti-Flicker preference available in LIfeSize Control. (CTL-3798) LifeSize Control supports the following new devices in this release: LifeSize Passport LifeSize Room 220 LifeSize Team 220 LifeSize Express 220 Tandberg 1700 MXP Polycom HDX 8000 In this release, you can now select multiple devices on the Devices page, click the Send Message icon of one of the devices to open a message that LifeSize Control then sends to all the selected devices at the same time. You can view the LifeSize Control Devices page, even if your license has expired. However, most actions are disabled and require you to renew your license to continue. LifeSize Control templates and the Device details page include a new option to enable or disable user access to the local directory. The Display 1 energy saver preference has been added to the Displays tab of the Device details page in this release. You can set this preference to Enabled for connected displays to turn off the signal that the LifeSize system sends to the display when the system goes to sleep. Refer to the LifeSize Video Communications Systems Administrator Guide for additional information about this preference. LifeSize Control templates and the Device details page include a new anti-flicker preference. Lights powered by a 50 Hz power source can produce a flicker that the camera captures and transmits to the system. If you are using lights powered by a 50 Hz power source and observe a flicker in the video displayed in your system, select the 50 Hz option for this preference. Refer to the LifeSize Video Communications Systems User Guide for additional information about this preference. 2
Feature LifeSize Control can use CDRs generated by LifeSize Gatekeeper to account for calls hosted by LifeSize Multipoint. (CTL-4135) Resolved Issues: Group system upgrades reported as successful even when several device upgrades fail. (CTL-4062) When importing users from an active directory of 10,000 users or more, the search option does not display. (CTL-4061) Some display options in the Devices page do not correctly identify devices registered to a gatekeeper. (CTL-4076) Voice dialing preference not applied to LifeSize Room 200 when applying a template. (CTL-4059) Passwords are visible while you enter them.(ctl-4068) Some reports used device IP address instead of system name. (CTL-4041) Calls placed from the Corporate Directory use maximum bandwidth when set to Auto. (CTL-4081 LifeSize Multipoint does not generate Call Detail Records (CDRs) that LifeSize uses to generate reports. However, LifeSize Control can gather call information about LifeSize Multipoint and generate reports for it if the following conditions are met: LifeSize Multipoint is registered to LifeSize Gatekeeper LifeSize Gatekeeper is configured (as recommended in the LifeSize Gatekeeper Installation Guide) so that the directory GatekeeperInstallationLocation\CDR is shared through Microsoft FTP Service and allows anonymous login. LifeSize Gatekeeper generates a CDR for calls on registered devices and stores it in the CDR directory. After a LifeSize Multipoint call, LifeSize Control uses an anonymous FTP login to GatekeeperInstallationLocation \CDR to download all the CDR files. It parses the files for the MCU call data and stores it for reports. Up to 40% of the devices in a scheduled group system upgrade failed to successfully upgrade, even though the status on the Events page for the upgrade was Successful. In this release, a group upgrade event is listed as successful only if all device upgrades are successful. If any devices fail to upgrade while others are successful, the status is listed as Partial Success. You can open the event to see which device upgrades failed and which succeeded. The Import Active Directory users dialog box did not display a search box for active directories of 10,000 or more users. This issue has been resolved in this release. When you used the Devices with alarms or Infrastructure devices filters on the Devices pages, devices registered to gatekeepers appeared as unregistered. This issue has been resolved in this release. LifeSize Room 200 voice dialing preference did not change to reflect the setting of a template applied to it through LifeSize Control. This issue has been resolved in this release. When you entered passwords in LifeSize Control, the characters were not masked as asterisks. This issue has been resolved in this release. In this release, reports use the system name instead of IP address. Affected reports include: Summary reports -> Manager Summary report. Device Summary, Device call minutes, Device utilization. ROI reports -> Device Utilization report. Individual utilization. Calls placed from the Corporate directory used maximum bandwidth when bandwidth was set to Auto. This issue has been resolved in this release. 3
Feature Some reports contained misleading resource use information. (CTL-3596) In previous releases, LifeSize Control reported device utilization that may have been misleading. In this release, you can customize how device utilization is reported. LifeSize Control does not properly resolve conflicts between Device offline and scheduled events. (CTL-4006) Scheduled calls count in LifeSize Control Dashboard is incorrect. (CTL-4019) Rebooting LifeSize Gateway from LifeSize Control makes LifeSize Gateway unresponsive. (CTL-4056) A conference with two (cascading) MCUs displays as two separate conferences in Events page. (CTL-4048) Wrong pop-up message when deleting a recurring call. (CTL-4047) Previously, if device A was hosting a conference with devices B, C, And D for 10 minutes, each leg of the call (A to B, A to C, and A to D) was counted as a 10 minute call. Additionally, device B, C, and D were counted in addition in 10 minute calls with A. The conference was counted as six calls, and the time used was counted at 60 minutes. In this release, each leg of a call is not counted twice by default. A Call Detail Record (CDR) for the entire conference is produced instead of adding the CDRs of the constituent legs. To maintain reporting as in previous releases, mark the Double count checkbox. It affects the following reports: Periodic reports -> Call Statistics report Summary reports -> Manager Summary, Traffic protocol, Traffic Success, Traffic Failure and Error Summary reports. Location audit report In conferences involving multiple managed devices, the new aggregate call detail record begins when the first device joins, and ends when the last device exits the conference. Affected reports include: Periodic reports -> Device Specific report Summary reports -> Manager Summary, Device Summary, Device call minutes, and Device utilization reports. ROI reports -> Device utilization report, Individual utilization and ROI reports, and Device Specific utilization report. When you scheduled a device offline event for a non-host participant in an existing multiway call, the entire call was canceled instead of simply removing the offline device from that scheduled instance. Multiple instances of the scheduled offline event appeared in the Events page. This issue is resolved in this release. The count of Scheduled calls in the LifeSize Control Dashboard included Device offline events. This issue is resolved in this release. Rebooting LifeSize Gateway from LifeSize Control leaves LifeSize Gateway unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot. This issue has been resolved in this release. The All scheduled calls display option in the Events page displays a conference with cascading MCUs as two separate conferences. This issue has been resolved in this release. Deleting a recurring conference after the first occurrence has completed produced the incorrect message: Conference has already been launched or terminated. This issue has been resolved in this release. 4
Feature The Control Dashboard Call History entry Total duration of calls in minutes does not accurately reflect the usage of calls longer than 60 minutes. (CTL-4013) Logs show device restore in progress even when they are completed. (CTL-3070) Can not delete template after template is applied. (CTL-4072) Can not set the names for the VGA and document camera inputs. (CTL-2593) If a call was one hour and twenty minutes, it was counted as 20 minutes instead of 80 and therefore the Total duration of calls in minutes under Call History in the LifeSize Control Dashboard was inaccurate if any calls lasted more than an hour. Calls less than one hour in duration were counted correctly. This issue has been resolved in this release. Logs in the View logs on the Templates page show completed Restore device operations as in progress. This issue has been resolved in this release. You could not delete a template even after its scheduled application completed. This issue has been corrected in this release. You still cannot delete a template if it is scheduled to be applied. You could not set the names for the VGA or document camera inputs for LifeSize Team through templates or the Device details page. This issue has been resolved in this release. Known Issues The following table lists known issues and their solutions or workarounds, if available. Numbers in parentheses following an issue are used for internal tracking purposes only. Issue/Problem PIN with Codian MCU as the master MCU and a LifeSize MCU as the subservient MCU in a cascaded call does not function properly (CTL-4020) Microsoft Exchange Users Only: Infinite email chain occurs with automated answering systems. (CTL-4148) Joining a conference with a Codian MCU using only the MCU s IP address creates a new ad hoc conference. (CTL-3922) LifeSize Control fails to schedule yearly recurring meeting scheduled through Microsoft Exchange Server within 180 days of the current date when the recurrence pattern is Every <month> <date>. (CTL-3582) /Workaround When you use a PIN in a call with a Codian MCU as the master MCU and a LifeSize MCU as the subservient MCU in a cascaded MCU call, calls placed through the LifeSize MCU request the PIN. To work around this issue, make the LifeSize MCU the master MCU. With an automated answering system, LifeSize Control integrated with Microsoft Exchange results in an infinite email chain. In this release, by default LifeSize Control does not send email about permission problems to any user. Contact Technical Services for assistance if you experience this problem. If you join a device to a conference in progress that has a Codian MCU by placing the call using only the MCU s IP address, LifeSize Control creates a separate ad hoc call instead of joining the device to the conference. To join the device to the conference in progress, place the call from the device using only the conference ID or the MCU s IP address followed by ##conference ID (IPaddress##conferenceID). LifeSize Control fails to schedule a yearly conference scheduled through Microsoft Exchange Server if the conference date is within 180 days from the current date, and the recurrence pattern selected is Every <month> <date>. To work around this issue, specify the date using the alternate recurrence pattern. 5
Issue/Problem LifeSize Control may fail to deliver email messages that are edited in LifeSize Control Administrator. (CTL-4002) Subscription reports are generated based on server time instead of client time zone. (CTL-3470) Upgrades in Progress includes events scheduled for the future. (CTL-2553) Polycom HDX device status remains in call after the call is over. (CTL-3377) Meaning of series deleted and occurrence deleted emails on Microsoft Exchange Settings page (CTL-3913) Updating a single occurrence in a series removes the occurrence from the series and may cause updates to the series to fail. (CTL-3430) Message on Events page for resolving conflicts with other scheduled events when taking a device offline is incomplete. (CTL-3860) Chinese and Japanese language versions of the Help index are incorrectly ordered /Workaround After editing the text of the email messages that are selected for delivery on the Microsoft Exchange Settings page in LifeSize Control Administrator, LifeSize Control may fail to deliver the messages. If this occurs, restart the LifeSize Control service. When you subscribe to a report, the time you specify for the report to be generated is interpreted by LifeSize Control as the LifeSize Control server time rather than the time in your time zone. To work around this issue, view the Report in LifeSize Control. The Upgrades in Progress screen shows upgrades scheduled for the future as soon as the event is created. To work around this issue, refresh the screen by choosing the Display option again. Ensure that Polycom devices use SNMP v1, not SNMP v2c. On the Microsoft Exchange Settings page in the emails customization section, the emails identified as Exchange - Schedule series deleted and Exchange - occurrence deleted are generated and sent to the meeting organizer when LifeSize Control deletes a series or a single occurrence of a meeting due to a discrepancy in a meeting update that LifeSize Control receives. These messages are not generated when a user deletes a series or a singe occurrence within a series. In LifeSize Control, updating a single occurrence in a recurring call scheduled through Microsoft Exchange Server removes the occurrence from the series. The occurrence becomes an independent, non-recurring scheduled call. If you then update the remaining series, a resource conflict may occur and the update may fail. For example if you change the MCU in a single occurrence and then make the same change to the MCU in the remaining series, the update fails indicating that a resource conflict exists. To workaround this issue, check the calendar of the device you are attempting to use as the substitute in the series to identify the conflicting event and modify the event to remove the conflict. If you schedule a device to be offline during a time in which the device is a participant in other scheduled events, LifeSize Control presents a list of the conflicting events and prompts you to click confirm to delete schedules and create the device offline schedule or click cancel." Clicking confirm either deletes the scheduled event if the event depends on the device, or modifies the scheduled event by deleting the device from the event. Due to a limitation in the software tool used to create the Help system, the Chinese and Japanese language versions of the Help system index are not ordered in the manner customary to these languages in this release. 6
Issue/Problem Missing alarm ID descriptions and deprecated alarms (CTL-3745) (Firefox browser only.) When right clicking a device with a login failure and updating the password, the wrong system is updated. (CTL-2735) LifeSize Control schedules recurrences of an event beyond schedule limits. (CTL-3436) /Workaround The description for a few alarms on the Alarms Configuration page in LifeSize Control Administrator appears as not available when you click the alarm in the Alarms list and some alarms appear that are deprecated in this release, but not removed from the user interface. For a description of alarms, including identification of alarms that appear in the user interface but are deprecated, refer to Appendix B: Alarms by Category in the LifeSize Control Deployment Guide. From the Device page, right clicking a system and selecting Update Password, updates the system directly under the selected system. To work around this issue, first left-click the desired device before right-clicking the device to update the password. If you schedule a large number of recurrences (approximately 250 or more) for an event, LifeSize Control may not be able to alert you that some recurrences are beyond the limit set for scheduling an event. Avoid setting a large number of recurrences for an event. Product Limitations The following table lists known limitations with this LifeSize product. Numbers in parentheses following an issue are used for internal tracking purposes only. Feature PostgreSQL does not upgrade to v8.3.0 during upgrades of LifeSize Control v3.5.0. Character entry restrictions. Use static IP address for LifeSize Control server. (CTL-1295) Alert not sent to meeting organizer when meeting scheduled in Microsoft Outlook fails. (CTL-3181) (CTL-4003) Vague error message when too many devices added for an MCU. (CTL-3069) Reconnecting a disconnected ad hoc call is not reflected in Microsoft Outlook. (CTL-3397) Support or Limitation If you are upgrading from LifeSize Control v3.5.0, PostgreSQL v8.2 is not upgraded to v8.3.0. If you need to reinstall LifeSize Control and restore the PostgreSQL database from a backup, install LifeSize Control v3.5.0. Text entry fields in the Device details page, dialog boxes for creating and editing templates, and the System Name field on the Devices page accept only the following characters: A-Z a-z 0-9 ~! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = { } \ <, >.? / ; : \ LifeSize recommends that you use a static IP address for the machine on which LifeSize Control is installed. The organizer of a meeting in Microsoft Outlook is not notified of the meeting s failure to start in this release. If you try to configure a call with more devices than an MCU s capacity, the error message simply states Unable to configure instead of port capacity for MCU has been exceeded in this release. Consecutive ad hoc conferences within two minutes of one another cannot be reflected in the Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendar in this release. 7
Feature Support or Limitation Changes made in LifeSize Control scheduler to a conference originally scheduled in Microsoft Outlook are over written if an update is sent through Microsoft Outlook. (CTL-3182) IP address field in the directory for an external device requires a unique number. (CTL-1961) Status window for devices shows status for all devices and users. (CTL-2065) Searching history alarms by owner returns no results. (CTL-2676) Virtual multiway statistics not supported. (CTL-2501, END-8119) ISDN calls through the gatekeeper are unsupported when the MCU is beyond the gatekeeper. (CTL-2500) Changes made in LifeSize Control to a meeting scheduled in Microsoft Outlook (such as change of MCU, bandwidth, type of call) are overwritten if the meeting update is sent from Microsoft Outlook. The IP address field in the Add an external device dialog box requires that you enter at least one unique IP address for an external device that is ISDN only. The status window on the device screen displays the status for all actions executed on the server, including status related to actions from other users/sessions and not just the current user. This release does not support searching history alarms by owner. In this release, statistics for all parties in a virtual multiway call is not supported. ISDN calls from or to a device that is registered to a gatekeeper are unsupported when an ISDN capable device is selected as the host. Interoperability LifeSize Control supports the following LifeSize and third party devices and software. Supplier Products Browser support Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 SP2, 7, 8 Mozilla Firefox version 3.5 Flash Player v9, v10 Email scheduling integration Microsoft Exchange 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2003 Webmail client Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Webmail client Codian MCU 4210: 2.1 (1.3), 2.4 (1) MCU 4220: 2.1 (1.7), 2.3 (1.8) MCU 4505: 2.2 (1.10), 2.4 (1.1) 8
Supplier Products LifeSize Phone: 2.6.0 (5), 3.6.0 (1) Room 200: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Room 220: 4.5.0 (20) Room: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Team: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Team 200: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Team 220: 4.5.0 (20) Team MP: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Express: 4.0.6 (7), 4.1.1 (17) Express 200: 4.1.1 (17) ) Express 220: 4.5.0 (20) Passport: 4.3 (60) Multipoint: 5.1, 5.5, 5.7 Gateway PRI and Serial; 5.1, 5.6 Gatekeeper: 4.1.5, 5.5 Networker: 2.0.0 (12), 3.0.1 (1), 3.1.1 (3) Radvision SCOPIA 100 12/24 MCU: 5.1, 5.7 SCOPIA 100 Gateway: 5.1, 5.6 Sony PCS-XG80: 2.0.3 Polycom VS EX: 6.0.5 VS FX: 6.0.5 VSX 3000: 8.5.3, 9.0.5 VSX 7000: 8.5.3, 9.0.5 VSX 8000: 8.5.3, 9.0.5 HDX 4000: 2.0.3.1 HDX 8000: 2.0.1-2350 HDX 9002: 2.0.3.1 HDX 9004: 2.0.1-2350 Siemens VP100: 3.0.5 (12), 3.5.0 (17), 3.6.0 (11) VHD400: 3.0.5 (12), 3.5.0 (18), 4.0.6 (8) VHD600: 3.0.5 (12), 3.5.0 (18), 4.0.6 (8) Tandberg 880: E5.3 1000: E5.3 6000: B10.3 550 MXP: F6.2 880/990 MXP: F6.1, F6.3, F8.0 1000 MXP: F 5.3, F7.0, F8.0 1700 MXP: F8.0 6000 MXP: F6.1, F6.3, F8.0 Edge95: F6.3 9
Interoperability Limitations The following table lists known limitations with third-party products. Numbers in parentheses following an issue are used for internal tracking purposes only. Feature License keys for Polycom VSX software upgrades require manual entry. (CTL-703) Third-party devices do not appear as being in ad-hoc calls. (CTL 3028) Support limitations for Sony PCS-XG80 video communications system Call duration not displayed in LifeSize Control for Polycom VSX 7000. (CTL-3133) Polycom VSX reboots after you begin managing it. (CTL-2161) Upgrading a Polycom device at a scheduled time shows a status of complete but does not list the device details. (CTL-2482) Limitation License keys for Polycom VSX software upgrades later than v7.0 require the key to be entered manually on the device. If you view an ad hoc call while in progress, third-party devices involved in the call will not appear as being in the call in this release. Support for the Sony PCS-XG80 video communications system in this release includes the following limitations: LifeSize Control retrieves generic properties, network properties, H323 properties and SIP properties for this device. Support for ISDN is not available in this release. Only point-to-point calls are supported. SNMP trap destinations are not set and monitoring the device is through ping only. You can place H.323 and SIP calls from and to the device from LifeSize Control with the following exception: an incoming SIP call to the device from a LifeSize device is not supported. The maximum supported bandwidth is 6000kbps. Device upgrades, changing the password, and rebooting the device are not supported. The country cannot be set on the device. The Country setting saved in LifeSize Control is only saved in the LifeSize Control database. Call duration information is not passed from the Polycom device to LifeSize Control and therefore, cannot be displayed. Polycom VSX series devices may reboot when the SNMP trap destinations are reset (for example, when you start managing a discovered device). Upgrading Polycom devices that require a software key is not supported in this release. 10
Documentation Errata The following table lists known issues in the technical documentation available in this release. Erratum Summary Viewing and Editing Device Details topic in Help CTL-4012 Take Device Offline topic in Help CTL-4012 The Help topic Viewing and Editing Device Details incorrectly states that you can launch call statistics from the Device details page if the device is in a call. The correct statement is: You can view call statistics when the device is in a call from the Devices page, by right-clicking the device and clicking Show call statistics, from the Events page by right-clicking a call in progress and clicking Show call statistics, and from the Schedule Call dialog box by clicking the Show call statistics icon for a device in the call. The Help topic Take Device Offline incorrectly states that you can take a managed device (excluding gatekeepers) offline. The correct statement is: You can take a take a managed device (excluding gatekeepers and gateways) offline. Technical Services LifeSize Communications welcomes your comments regarding our products and services. If you have feedback about this or any LifeSize product, please send it to feedback@lifesize.com. You may also contact LifeSize Technical Services as follows: Method Address Internet http://www.lifesize.com E-mail support@lifesize.com Phone (877) LIFESIZE or (877) 543-3749, (512) 347-9300 Fax (512) 347-9301 11